[issue2452] inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation

[John J Lee]

New submission from John J Lee <jjlee at users.sourceforge.net>:

The documentation for the new timeout support in 2.6 states that "If the
optional timeout parameter is given, connection attempts will timeout
after that many seconds".  In fact, other non-blocking.  The only
operation that might block for longer than the requested timeout is the
getaddrinfo() in socket.create_connection().

There may be similar inaccuracies in the docs of other modules to which
timeout support was added.

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 64295
nosy: georg.brandl, jjlee
severity: normal
status: open
title: inaccuracy in httplib timeout documentation
versions: Python 2.6

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